Here, you’ll find 16 beautiful divorce cake ideas for beginner and pro bakers, including easy designs with instructions to recreate them. If you’re looking for inspiration to place an order with your local baker, or you want to recreate one of these cakes yourself, you’re in the perfect place.
How to find a divorce cake idea suited to your cake-decorating level?
I’ve come up with a system. The cake ideas are presented to you according to their level of difficulty. There are three categories :
What Are Beginner Cake Ideas?
These are easy cake ideas. If you’ve never decorated a cake before (or only did it once or twice), these are the cakes that you should pay attention to.
- What you’ll find: Beautiful cake ideas that only require basic cake decorating techniques. This is a great place to start your journey.
What Are Intermediate Cake Ideas?
Low Intermediate Baker: If you are confident that you’ve mastered the cake decorating basics, such as how to smooth a cake, but feel like you still have a lot of techniques to learn apart from this foundation, this category is perfect for you.
- What you’ll find: Cake ideas that require both basic decorating skills and one or two techniques that are a little bit more advanced. This is a great place to grow your cake-decorating skills.
High Intermediate Baker: If you’ve mastered both basic techniques and several more advanced cake decorating techniques, these cake ideas are made for you.
- What you’ll find: Stunning cake ideas that can be fairly challenging, but are a great place to get even better than you already are.
What Are Advanced Cake Ideas?
If you consider yourself an experienced cake decorator and have mastered most of the decorating techniques, including the use of fondant, then this is the perfect place for you.
- What you’ll find: Showstopping and challenging cake ideas, perfect to sharpen and maintain your skills.
The Grading System
Finally, I’ve also assigned a grade of difficulty to each cake inspiration: 1/5 being the easiest design and 5/5 being the hardest. The goal is to make the ranking the most accurate possible. You will find this to be particularly helpful if you happen to fall in the Beginner or the Intermediate Cake Ideas categories.
Growth Tip : This list is great a place to set goals about your cake decorating skills. Pin this post and come back later to tell us how far you’ve come in your cake decorating journey !
How to recreate these divorce cake ideas?
What cake recipe should you use to make your perfect cake come true?
To recreate these cake ideas, you will need a trustworthy cake recipe. You have several options.
Adapt your favorite cake recipe.
There are a lot of ways to adapt a cake recipe. You mainly have four options to tweak your favorite recipe :
- You could change the flavor of your cake recipe: with citrus zest, the essence of your choice, or turn it into a chocolate or carrot cake for example.
- You could add a filling: a caramel sauce, a homemade flavored whipped cream, ganache, or buttercream.
- You could also add some texture: oreo bits, crumble crumbs, nuts, or fresh fruit for example.
- Finally, you could personalize your frosting.
Be careful, if you’re a beginner baker, having to figure out both your cake design and creating a new cake recipe could be overwhelming. Therefore, I always recommend taking your learning journey one step at a time.
Look for a cake recipe.
Where? You can ask friends, or family or simply look on the internet. You have to keep two things in mind though :
- The recipe has to be suitable for cake decorating, especially for cakes that require stacking or carving (intermediate and advanced cake ideas).
- Once again, if you’re a beginner baker, be careful not to put too much on your plate and choose a recipe suited to your current level.
Use my cake recipe recommendation.
Finally, you could try the delicious recipe I recommend. I firmly believe everyone should have a trustworthy chocolate cake recipe, and my chocolate cake recipe is both beginner-friendly and perfect for cake decorating. I’m sure you’ll love it.
What you will love about this recipe :
- It has a perfect chocolate flavor.
- It’s a really easy recipe, perfect for beginners.
- It has a great texture.
How to follow the instructions of the designs.
For the cake designs in the beginner category: I’ll provide written instructions on how to recreate the cake idea presented to you. Don’t hesitate to watch video tutorials about the basic techniques such as how to smooth a cake.
For the designs in the intermediate category: I’ll provide some guidance on how to perform the more complicated techniques.
For the advanced category: you are an experienced baker, at this point, and you will find great opportunities to put this experience to use. To be completely honest, I cannot make myself several cake ideas from the advanced category, so trust your abilities and go for it.
Find the perfect divorce cake idea for your baking skills.
Growth Tip : If you aim to get better at cake decorating, you should choose a cake idea that feels sligthly above your current cake decorating level. Get out of your comfort zone !
Divorce Cake Ideas For Beginner Bakers
Here, you’ll find 3 easy divorce cake ideas perfect for beginner bakers.
Simple Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Divorce-themed cake decorations.
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Next, chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Cut the raw edges of the cake with a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges.
- Finally, place your cake decorations on your cake.
What you’ve learned :
As a beginner cake decorator, the first thing you have to master is how to frost a cake. From there, you can create stunning cake designs thanks to simple elements like cake toppers and cake decorations.
Elegant Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 1/5.
If you’re looking for an elegant divorce cake idea, this one might suit your needs.
What you will need:
- Enough frosting to cover your cake.
- Edible golden sheets + small paintbrush
- Edible pearls
- Divorce-themed cake toppers
How to recreate this cake?
- First, you must crumb-coat the cake to avoid any crumbs in your final design. Apply a thin and even coat of frosting with your offset spatula all around your cake.
- Smooth it with your bench scraper, holding it at a 45-degree angle on the cake while spinning your turntable. Your bench scraper isn’t supposed to move, only turn the table.
- It doesn’t have to be perfect as it only is the first coat. Chill the cake 20 to 30 minutes in the fridge (until your frosting sets).
- Then, apply a thicker coat of frosting and repeat the smoothing operation. Fill in any gaps and smooth the cake again. Repeat this operation until the cake looks smooth enough for you. Here, you’ll find a video tutorial of the covering process, if needed.
- Next, chill your cake in the fridge for 30 minutes or until your buttercream cover sets.
- Then, with your paintbrush, transfer gold leaf bits from the sheet of paper to the cake. Don’t use your fingers, it will stick to it.
- Finally, add your edible pearls and your cake toppers.
What you’ve learned :
With golden leaves, edible pearls and cake decorations, you can easily take a very simple cake design to the next level.
Happy Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 1,5/5.
If you have a preference for more sober and classical design, you’ll love this one.
What you will need :
- Enough frosting to cover and decorate your cake.
- A piping bag + an open star piping tip (such as the 1M by Wilton)
- A piping bag + a small round piping tip (such as the #3 by Wilton)
How to recreate this cake?
- First, crumb coat, cover, and chill your cake as explained in the previous design.
- Next, cut the edges of the cake with a knife warmed with water to get sharp edges.
- For the buttercream writing. If you’re not used to writing with buttercream, use a toothpick or the tip of a knife to trace where you’re going to write.
- Now you can retrace over the imprint you made on your buttercream with your round piping tip. If you’d like to practice beforehand, you can always do so on a sheet of parchment paper until you’re confident enough.
- For the buttercream shell border. Hold the piping bag with the star piping tip at a 45-degree angle next to the cake’s bottom edge.
- Squeeze the piping bag to release the icing, and pull the bag away while releasing pressure forming a shell shape.
- Keep piping shells to form a border around the cake. Maintain a consistent angle and pressure for uniform shells.
- Remember, you can always practice on a sheet of parchment paper before piping on the actual cake. To get more clarity you can watch this quick shell border tutorial.
What you’ve learned :
Learning to write on a cake with buttercream takes a little bit of practice, but it’s one of the basic cake decorating skills that’ll help you personalize any cake design.
Divorce Cake Ideas Perfect For Intermediate Bakers
Here, you’ll find 9 divorce cake ideas perfect for intermediate bakers.
Black Heart Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 2,5/5 (Low-Intermediate)
Embrace your new beginning with this beautiful floral divorce cake, a perfect symbol for your new start.
A little guidance
If you’re not good at buttercream writing, DIY fondant and chocolate letters made from silicon molds are a great alternative.
Legally Single Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
This cake is also another great design to celebrate that you’re now legally single.
A little guidance
When writing with frosting, I like to previously write my letters with a toothpick and then overdraw with my frosting. It makes the placement, spacing, and overall message easier to create.
“Bye Boy” Cake
Difficulty Level: 3/5 (Intermediate)
A dead marriage can sometimes feel like a jail sentence, but now it’s all behind you and you can celebrate your newfound freedom with this simple divorce cake.
A little guidance
Don’t hesitate to practice your buttercream rope border technique, using a 4B piping tip, on parchment paper before recreating it on your final cake design.
Black And Pink Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
If you’re looking for a more humorous cake, you might prefer this kind of cake design.
A little guidance
A great way to start getting comfortable with fondant is by creating small elements like the ones on this cake. To recreate these little figures, simply print them from Google Images, cut them, and use them as patterns to cut your fondant.
Heart Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 3,5/5 (High-Intermediate)
This kind of popular vintage cake would also make a perfect divorce cake. Don’t hesitate to play with the color and the type of decorative piping to get a more personalized cake design.
A little guidance
If you don’t own a heart cake tin, don’t worry, you can easily create a heart cake using a round cake tin.
Rainbow Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Add a touch of pep to your new beginning with this colorful divorce cake.
A little guidance
There’s nothing easier than recreating a striped cake. Simply apply your buttercream with a piping bag one color on top of the other as shown in this quick tutorial, and voilà!
Smiley Divorce Cake
Difficulty level: 4/5 (High-Intermediate)
Maybe you want a cake design even quirkier, in this case, you’ll love this emoji divorce cake design.
A little guidance
Covering a cake in fondant for the first time is no easy task, so be aware that you’re first attempt might not be perfect. In time, fondant won’t have any secrets for you anymore. Check out this detailed tutorial to start with a solid technique.
Divorce Cake Ideas For Advanced Bakers
These 4 divorce cake ideas will be perfectly suited to experienced cake decorators.
Blue Divorce Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
I love this kind of heartbreak cake, it’s perfectly suited to your fresh start.
Red Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
You might prefer the more dramatic and red version of a heartbreak cake.
Pink Divorce Cake
Difficulty level: 5/5
Or maybe you like trendy cake design, and in this case, this drip cake version of a divorce cake would make an excellent choice.
Tiered Divorce Cake
Difficulty Level: 5/5
Finally, if you’re planning to host a lot of guests, this kind of tiered cake is the safest bet.
If you’re looking for more cake ideas you can check out one of my other cake ideas for children and adults.
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